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Iran in New York
- 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.29 · The Iranian Revolution relied largely on nonviolent tactics
- 0.40 · explainers · keep 0.10 · The UN found that the Islamic Republic of Iran used genocidal tactics after the revolution
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Cancer Detection Test
- 0.58 · explainers · keep 0.13 · Trials ongoing for a 99% accurate, AI-powered blood test
- 0.47 · explainers · keep 0.09 · US regulators have approved an at-home genetic test looking for BRCA gene mutations
- 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.20 · There are two FDA-approved blood tests that may detect early Alzheimer's disease, but people can only use them when they already have symptoms of memory loss.
- 0.44 · experiences · keep 0.61 · Explore this interactive tool from the National Cancer Institute to calculate your risk of dying from various causes, including cancer.
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.17 · Genetic blood test offers an estimated clock on when Alzheimer's symptoms may appear
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.15 · A snapshot of progress in cancer treatments
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.41 · About 40% of cancer cases are linked to preventable risk factors
- 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.19 · US cancer mortality rates have been falling for 25 years
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.12 · The FDA has approved 9 cancer drugs that target specific mutations, regardless of which organs harbor the tumors—a growing trend that will require insurers to revise their treatment approval processes.
- 0.40 · explainers · keep 0.24 · Cancer rates are on the rise among GenXers and Millennials
- 0.40 · explainers · keep 0.60 · The additive effects of smoking, diabetes, and poor diet are the biggest risk factors for developing pancreatic cancer.
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The Heart of Ancient Paris
- 0.48 · experiences · keep 0.60 · Explore a database of ancient graffiti
- 0.46 · curiosity · keep 0.65 · Graffiti dates back to at least ancient Pompeii, where citizens scrawled messages to one another on public walls
- 0.46 · experiences · keep 0.46 · Explore the archaeological treasures of Pompeii, the city buried under volcanic ash when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 CE.
- 0.46 · experiences · keep 0.22 · Pompeii's buried secrets are still being revealed
- 0.45 · experiences · keep 0.61 · A collection of ancient graffiti from Pompeii, Herculaneum
- 0.44 · curiosity · keep 0.52 · Unraveling the charred remains of the only known library from antiquity
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.86 · Why are ancient ruins underground?
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.35 · The fast food shops of ancient Pompeii
- 0.41 · experiences · keep 0.59 · What do the Lascaux cave paintings look like?
- 0.41 · experiences · keep 0.68 · Examine a 3D model of the Rosetta Stone
- 0.40 · experiences · keep 0.58 · What can we learn from archaeology?
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NICU celebrates National Literacy Month by dressing babies in jungle-themed costumes as parents, siblings, and
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Harvey Weinstein receives 15-year prison sentence for 2025 sexual assault conviction following an overturned v
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Dolly Parton's manager requests restraining order against her nephew Bryan Seaver, alleging he threatened viol
- 0.46 · curiosity · keep 0.22 · A young Dolly Parton felt confined by her partnership with country star and TV host Porter Wagoner.
- 0.45 · curiosity · keep 0.26 · Dolly Parton consistently declined opportunities to align herself with politicians.
- 0.45 · curiosity · keep 0.84 · Elvis Presley wanted to record 'I Will Always Love You,' but Dolly Parton refused.
- 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.11 · A Tennessee children's hospital changed its name to Dolly Parton Children's Hospital.
- 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.28 · Dolly Parton initially declined her nomination for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, though the Hall inducted her anyways.
- 0.41 · explainers · keep 0.12 · Taylor Swift's feud with executive Scooter Braun
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Elizabeth Holmes documentary, "You Can See Everything," releases new trailer featuring comedian and director N
- 0.51 · longform · keep 0.25 · Read a primer on Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced founder of biotech startup Theranos who was sentenced to prison for defrauding investors.
- 0.46 · longform · keep 0.54 · Read about why America is obsessed with the stories of financial scammers.
- 0.40 · longform · keep 0.39 · Who is wellness scammer Belle Gibson?
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-VT) introduces legislation to ban artificial superintelligence and create a federal Dep
- 0.50 · explainers · keep 0.45 · Artificial superintelligence is the final frontier of artificial intelligence, surpassing human intelligence in every domain and capable of acquiring knowledge and skills without human intervention.
- 0.49 · news-in-context · keep 0.11 · OpenAI helped kick-start an AI arms race in Silicon Valley
- 0.48 · explainers · keep 0.18 · Warren Buffett has worried that AI might end up being as consequential as the development of the nuclear bomb
- 0.48 · explainers · keep 0.36 · Will AI kill us all? A debate.
- 0.47 · explainers · keep 0.72 · Some experts suggest there is an approximately 10% chance that AI agents will cause human extinction if they become superintelligent, go rogue, and hijack critical computer systems.
- 0.46 · explainers · keep 0.38 · As Anthropic's CEO, Dario Amodei's vision for AI has been inspired by the loss of his father to an illness that was made 95% curable four years after his passing.
- 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.24 · The promise and peril of AI in agriculture
- 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.28 · AI experts argue that artificial intelligence could annihilate humanity in two primary ways: Humans weaponizing extremely powerful AI, or humans losing control of it.
- 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.49 · Listen to Palantir CEO Alex Karp's outlook for how AI will change the economy.
- 0.44 · news-in-context · keep 0.37 · In 2025, American tech companies will spend $300B to $400B on AI
- 0.44 · news-in-context · keep 0.12 · In 2025, sovereign wealth funds invested more than $66B into artificial intelligence
- 0.43 · news-in-context · keep 0.51 · The Anthropic Economic Index shows AI adoption is highest in computer science roles.
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Earth's rotation changes every few decades due to gravitational, electromagnetic, and topographic interactions
- 0.62 · curiosity · keep 0.46 · Rising sea levels due to climate change may be slowing Earth's rotation
- 0.60 · curiosity · keep 0.80 · Earth's core is about 2.5 years younger than its surface according to relativity
- 0.55 · curiosity · keep 0.30 · Changes in Earth's orbital cycles influence the timing of ice ages
- 0.51 · curiosity · keep 0.42 · Why the sun's equator rotates once every 24.5 days, but the poles take over 34 days
- 0.48 · explainers · keep 0.49 · Earth's smooth, continuous motion as it orbits the sun prevents detectable motion
- 0.48 · curiosity · keep 0.87 · If the Earth stopped spinning, about 85% of the world's population would experience supersonic winds.
- 0.48 · curiosity · keep 0.68 · The Foucault pendulum is direct evidence that the Earth rotates, as the apparent change in the plane of its swing results from the ground beneath the pendulum rotating over several hours.
- 0.47 · curiosity · keep 0.41 · Why time ticks faster on the moon, which may need its own time zone
- 0.45 · curiosity · keep 0.71 · The extreme precision of atomic clocks highlights gravitational time dilation
- 0.45 · curiosity · keep 0.25 · Gravity Probe B verified that rotating objects drag spacetime
- 0.45 · curiosity · keep 0.71 · Explaining why the Earth wobbles
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.19 · Satellites in low Earth orbit can experience changes in their orbits due to shifts in solar activity, which alter the amount of energy Earth's atmosphere receives and its resulting density.
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Scientists develop enzyme-based, more cost-effective method to produce next-generation antibiotics for drug-re
- 0.52 · explainers · keep 0.37 · It can take 10 to 15 years and more than $1B to develop a new antibiotic.
- 0.48 · explainers · keep 0.48 · Superbugs are pathogens that have proved resistant to medications designed to combat them, rendering standard treatments ineffective.
- 0.48 · explainers · keep 0.40 · Scientists from the frontline discuss the future of antibiotics and superbugs
- 0.47 · explainers · keep 0.11 · The new antibiotic killing drug-resistant bacteria
- 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.18 · Making industrial chemicals with synthetic biology
- 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.38 · Bacteria rapidly evolve (and share) new defenses against drugs they encounter
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.34 · Recombinant DNA technology turns microorganisms into protein factories
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.66 · Why bacterial bioremediation may help counter the negative effects of past chemical solutions
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.21 · More than 39 million people are expected to die from antimicrobial resistance by 2050
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.48 · Drug-resistant infections worldwide have increased by about 65% since 2000
- 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.36 · Women's wartime suit features silk dyed with CRISPR-modified bacteria
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.18 · View the industrial applications of extremozymes, from food safety to antibiotic production
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US stock markets close down (S&P 500 -0.8%, Dow -0.7%, Nasdaq -1.1%) as crude oil prices rise for the first ti
- 0.49 · news-in-context · keep 0.14 · Beyond oil, the Iran war has pushed up costs on fertilizer, prescriptions, and mortgages.
- 0.48 · explainers · keep 0.34 · Markets have always recovered and hit new highs following crashes
- 0.47 · explainers · keep 0.40 · A stock index is a group of companies clustered together, often providing a condensed snapshot of a market segment.
- 0.46 · explainers · keep 0.65 · See how the S&P 500 performed throughout the first 100 days of each modern presidency.
- 0.44 · explainers · keep 0.18 · Oil markets are seeing higher costs and lower prices amid tech breakthroughs
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.61 · Why does the stock market matter?
- 0.43 · news-in-context · keep 0.30 · In late 2025, the top 10 companies in the S&P 500 made up more than 40% of the index's total value
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.18 · Some argue that the rising US national debt has become more important in recent months.
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.32 · Investors collectively owned $28T in US Treasury securities as of 2025.
- 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.14 · Why have gas prices surged nearly 27% since the Iran war began?
- 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.11 · The Dow now tracks 30 major US companies across various industries
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.22 · Interest rates have historically been an indicator of the US economy's overall health.
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Federal Reserve is projected to raise interest rates again this year by a quarter of a percentage point and ho
- 0.56 · explainers · keep 0.22 · Interest rates have historically been an indicator of the US economy's overall health.
- 0.50 · explainers · keep 0.35 · The Federal Reserve's decisions can impact your money
- 0.50 · explainers · keep 0.24 · The Federal Reserve targets 2% inflation
- 0.49 · explainers · keep 0.15 · 'Floating rate' loans periodically adjust their interest rates in accordance with economic conditions
- 0.48 · explainers · keep 0.16 · Periodically, the Federal Open Market Committee decides whether to raise, hold, or lower the federal funds rate
- 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.40 · The Fed can use quantitative easing to stimulate growth once it has lowered the federal funds rate as far as it can go
- 0.45 · explainers · keep 0.35 · In the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, the Fed began a program of quantitative easing
- 0.44 · news-in-context · keep 0.15 · In 2025, the US credit rating was downgraded over concerns about the debt-to-GDP ratio.
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.11 · The two-day marathon meetings of the Federal Open Market Committee follow a logical process of information sharing
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.29 · The Fed operates within the open market as a competitive bidder of interest rates
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.16 · The national debt is growing at a faster rate than the economy.
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.18 · Some argue that the rising US national debt has become more important in recent months.
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Pilgrim, a startup building hardware to detect airborne viruses, draws investments from Anthropic leaders amid
- 0.53 · curiosity · keep 0.49 · The history of Anthropic began with a break from OpenAI over safety concerns.
- 0.50 · explainers · keep 0.49 · Listen to Palantir CEO Alex Karp's outlook for how AI will change the economy.
- 0.50 · explainers · keep 0.54 · How to prevent a worst-case scenario with synbio
- 0.50 · explainers · keep 0.29 · How Anthropic's experimental corporate structure incentivizes safe AI development
- 0.49 · explainers · keep 0.50 · Meet the investor running his life with AI
- 0.48 · explainers · keep 0.36 · Listen to tech company Palantir's CEO Alex Karp discuss the threat of a surveillance state.
- 0.48 · explainers · keep 0.37 · The crypto city home to biohacking experiments
- 0.47 · explainers · keep 0.25 · Hear what Michael Burry thinks about the possibility of an AI bubble
- 0.47 · explainers · keep 0.07 · A merger between OpenAI and Anthropic was reportedly proposed after Sam Altman's firing to keep OpenAI safety-oriented amid the internal turmoil.
- 0.46 · news-in-context · keep 0.43 · See a web of circular investments among major AI industry players like Nvidia and OpenAI, as many top AI companies provide significant investments to one another.
- 0.46 · experiences · keep 0.17 · Anthropic's Frontier Red Team assesses the dangers of its AI tools through 'evals'—safety tests that probe models to disclose sensitive information.
- 0.46 · explainers · keep 0.38 · As Anthropic's CEO, Dario Amodei's vision for AI has been inspired by the loss of his father to an illness that was made 95% curable four years after his passing.
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President Donald Trump hosts Chinese President Xi Jinping today at the White House, with talks planned on AI,
- 0.45 · news-in-context · keep 0.17 · Track how American tariffs have impacted different countries and industries.
- 0.43 · news-in-context · keep 0.08 · What Trump's executive order provides TikTok
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.17 · A trade war is an economic conflict where nations impose tariffs or other trade barriers on each other in retaliation for similar actions.
- 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.08 · Trump's 2025 tariffs represent a significant break from the rules-based trade order
- 0.41 · news-in-context · keep 0.24 · See who sat where at the US-China state dinner and why
- 0.40 · explainers · keep 0.23 · Hear the reasoning behind Trump's resurrection of the Monroe Doctrine in 2025.
- 0.40 · explainers · keep 0.15 · Trade between the US and China has significantly increased in recent decades.
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Federal judge considers White House decision to rescind access for CNN, MS NOW, and Politico journalists; hear
- 0.42 · explainers · keep 0.22 · The Nixon administration tried and failed to stop the press from publishing the Pentagon Papers
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Rebels in Ethiopia's Tigray region seize airports, raising concerns of return to 2020-2022 civil war, which ra
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Socialism hits a new high in US polling.
- 0.44 · news-in-context · keep 0.49 · The worst election polling fails in US history
- 0.43 · explainers · keep 0.23 · Social Security is one of the most popular government programs
- 0.43 · news-in-context · keep 0.64 · The top US income tax rate hit 94% near the end of World War II and hasn't topped 40% since 1987.
- 0.41 · news-in-context · keep 0.14 · China is now viewed more favorably than the US in a majority of 36 countries surveyed this year.
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What a 3,400-year-old peace treaty looks like.
- 0.41 · experiences · keep 0.63 · Charting 4,000 years of human history
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.43 · The 1621 Pilgrim-Wampanoag peace treaty was the first of its kind
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See where the US ranks in global math scores.
- 0.72 · news-in-context · keep 0.24 · The US lags behind other developed countries in math and science scores
- 0.60 · explainers · keep 0.45 · One reason Americans are bad at math
- 0.58 · news-in-context · keep 0.66 · See where your state ranked in an analysis of the best public school systems in the US.
- 0.51 · news-in-context · keep 0.27 · Explore US public health data
- 0.45 · news-in-context · keep 0.34 · Testing the internet speed of the US's wireless providers
- 0.45 · experiences · keep 0.33 · Explore over 30,000 Olympiad-level math problems from around the world.
- 0.44 · news-in-context · keep 0.28 · The United States currently ranks number one for countries that enable the most financial secrecy
- 0.44 · news-in-context · keep 0.48 · Hear why one author thinks college rankings may be irrelevant
- 0.43 · news-in-context · keep 0.51 · See how income taxes in the US compare to those of other countries.
- 0.43 · news-in-context · keep 0.83 · Visualize tipping norms around the world with this map that reveals the US tips more service providers and leaves larger amounts than anywhere else globally.
- 0.42 · news-in-context · keep 0.53 · Visualizing the world's wealth in 2019
- 0.41 · experiences · keep 0.73 · Guess US city populations via bracket-style game
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How pedestrian signs look around the world.
- 0.45 · curiosity · keep 0.87 · The 'Sign Post Forest' in Canada's Yukon collects roadsigns from across the globe
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America's most popular cat names.
- 0.53 · curiosity · keep 0.60 · The most popular American baby names by decade
- 0.47 · news-in-context · keep 0.57 · Most popular baby names in the US by year
- 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.56 · The funniest pet photos of 2022
- 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.52 · A gallery of New York cats alongside their feline reflections
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.75 · See a ranking of the most memorable presidential pets in history
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Watch a cow get the helicopter ride of its life.
- 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.58 · Why cows are loving their new robot caretakers
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... and see otters furiously chuck their own oysters.
- 0.51 · curiosity · keep 0.75 · As part of the up to 15 pounds of seafood they consume daily, sea otters eat urchins that feed on kelp forests—helping preserve a source of shelter and food to over 800 species.
- 0.46 · curiosity · keep 0.69 · To prevent floating away from others while sleeping, sea otters may wrap themselves in kelp or hold paws, using physical contact to form groups known as 'rafts.'
- 0.45 · curiosity · keep 0.90 · Watch this octopus win every single Escape Room challenge
- 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.25 · In recent years, orcas have begun sinking boats and other orcas are following in their footsteps
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.69 · Light pollution is giving oysters insomnia
- 0.41 · experiences · keep 0.78 · Explore the animals that populate the depths of the ocean, from fish and coral in the first few hundred feet, all the way down to the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
- 0.40 · curiosity · keep 0.55 · One NHL team tosses salmon to its fans
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The bizarre pillows Kleenex sold in 1967.
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.67 · The Sears catalog sold some weird products before it folded, including drugs
- 0.41 · curiosity · keep 0.58 · The 1980s brought luxury items into the bathroom
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The dolphin that bullies fish into vomiting. (w/video)
- 0.47 · curiosity · keep 0.66 · River dolphins manhandle an unlucky anaconda
- 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.90 · Watch this octopus win every single Escape Room challenge
- 0.42 · longform · keep 0.11 · A pod of orcas takes down a yacht
- 0.42 · experiences · keep 0.84 · The 10 most amazing deep sea creatures
- 0.42 · curiosity · keep 0.25 · In recent years, orcas have begun sinking boats and other orcas are following in their footsteps
- 0.41 · longform · keep 0.52 · Aerial footage of five killer whales hunting great white sharks
- 0.40 · curiosity · keep 0.85 · The fish can climb walls
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